WHITE, Joseph
431
Courts
Trowbridge
Wilts
4 Sept 1819
My Lord
I beg leave to inform Your Lordship that agreably to the proposals dated the 20 August, which your Lordship has been pleas’d to favour me with, that Ten Families from the towns of Trowbridge, Bradford and Westbury have united together according to your Lordships directions, to emigrate from this Country to the Cape of Good Hope as Settlers; and are now waiting your Lordships final instructions, to know where they are to deposit their money, and what further directions your Lordship would be pleas’d to give them.
I beg to subscribe myself My Lord
Your Lordships most obedient and humble servant
for the whole
Joseph WHITE
CRABBE, George re Joseph WHITE (Filed under M in CO48/44))
597
Trowbridge
14th August 1819
We the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish of Trowbridge in the County of Wilts do certify that we do know and are well acquainted with Joseph WHITE of Trowbridge aforesaid Labourer who has a wife and five children all parishioners of Trowbridge that the said Joseph WHITE is an able bodied man but at present out of employment. We therefore recommend him as a fit and proper person to be sent to settle in his Majesty’s colony at the Cape of Good Hope he having been there at the taking of it as a mariner under the command of Admiral Sir G. KEITH.
George CRABBE, Minister
Thos.TINDRELL }
Thos. STILLMAN } Churchwardens